I grew Ginseng ,Blood root , and Dioscorea batatas [Chinese wild yam] and a few others when living in that growing zone, in 50 to 85% shade --Michael Porter ...
Hi Gail, thanks! It's a good start....I really should have said a vegan, all-plant recipe. I wonder whether the original marshmallow sweets were made without...
Hello to you all, i am a newcomer, happy to join I am. Just have been intensely browsing pfaf these last days, and would like to get help from you. I cannot...
I have a "forest garden", which in Texas translates to "hot, dry shade under cedars and oaks that will grow nothing but rocks." Still, we have hacked out...
Now Marcia has my attention. My husband's GI loan is slated for Texas and his Federal GI loan any where in the US he wants. Of course, if I want him to get...
Hello Marcia, I would love to know more. I have rocks upon rocks and the growing season for gardens can be as short as 60 days between killer frosts. Are you...
Now, Wolf, North Texas is by the Red River, the Rio Grande is the border of Mexico, down south. Two totally different worlds, garden-wise. I'd take North...
... There are some *really* fast open-pollinated (heirloom) tomatoes. Glacier is one - Fedco carries it, as do others. Take a look here too, if you're...
I was exhausted when I wrote that, Pat so it's a wonder that I was even able to see straight much less think straight. By the way, have you ever been to the...
Thanks, Pat. That's excellent advice. My spread is in the Laurentian Hills (Mountains) west-northwest of Montreal. The hills are not large enough (e.g. the...
Hi Pedro Bom dia! did I say it right? Anyway.. I notice you have the cardamom genus name misspelled.. it is a double "t" not a double "l" So that might help.....
... We're at about 1700 feet. We are not in the Poconos, but considerably west of there. We are in the Appalachians. We're not on a hilltop, however - the...
I have a spot in the mountains near Boone, NC I want to get some crops started on but cant be there to manage them just yet. many of the fruit trees I have...
Books and more books Hi all, I haven't been keeping up with the list over the last 6 months or so (too busy), so forgive me if this is old news to you all....
Here in Blanco, Texas, I'm at 1650 ft, but it's just a ridge in the hill country, no mountains around here! I was so surprised to find out we are higher than...
All I know about fruit trees is that northerly exposure is better because any late frosts kill the earlier blooming trees on the warmer slopes. But nut trees...
Hello, Thank you for the info on Chaya, I recently bought a stick of one from Nature & decouvertes in Paris, and put it in a pot indoors, but sadly the stick...
Ann, I bought wolfberry/goji seeds on eBay. I didn't get them to germinate yet, but that might be because I didn't really follow the instructions. I think I ...
Hi Ann, Lycium (gou qi zi or Duke of Argyll's Tea Plant) grows along the coast here in Norfolk, around Morston. You can take the seeds out of the dried berries...
Lycium barbarum is an introduced species here in Texas, and the USDA shows it as growing "wild" in Florida as well. You should also check out whatever native...
Thank you for all the replies, I think I will try the trick of germinating the seeds from a dried berry. I noticed some nurseries actually sell the plants by...
Hi everyone (re: the goji berries), I am currently germinating a number of Goji seeds for planting around my home (in Bermuda). I got mine from "The Fountain...
Let's Grow Goji Berries Imagine a plant that is easy to grow, an attractive landscape shrub, tolerant of drought and poor soils, and hardy to USDA zone 5, and ...
Two comments: I\ve never seen grape sized Goji berries, what I`ve seen is more barberrry sized (1 x 0,5 cm), both in China, and in Norway... So if you have...
Someone requested a vegan marshmallow recipe a while back & I just found it. Gail MARSHMALLOW RECIPE 2 tablespoons of gelatin 1/4 cup of water 2 cups of white...
Another recipe for vegan marshmallows. Gail Here is a recipe that uses agar agar as a thickener. Agar agar is prepared from several species of red algae...
Thanks Gail, the other one uses gelatin which is an animal-derived product, but this one is truly vegan. Now to incorporate actual marsh mallow root into this...
Peggy, I'm in Douglas County, Mo. There are other people in this area who are interested in/starting forest gardens. If you are any where near Ava, we could...
It wold be nice for us in other parts of the world to know what Mo and Ava means where to look at the map... Geir Flatabø ... [Non-text portions of this...
